Scaramouche, scaramouche

...what a fun GNI we had chez Nicky. Elle, Erica, Mandy, Micky, Nicky, Trish et moi-meme were a la Chataigneraie on Sunday evening for a GNI and a 'surprise' evening's entertainment. Nicky served up a fine spread of jacket spuds and scrummy salad followed by a killer chocolate mousse (that nearly beat me, but serious peer pressure from les filles forced me to finish it) and then the mystery was revealed. Karaoke. After initial nervousness and anxious sweating, much fun was had by all. We are a mere handful of slips of girls - and yet we made some big BIG noise. T'was very very funny - the highlight of the evening was a truly wonderful rendition of "Fever" by Mandy - and then musical mayhem was achieved when we group-sang Bohemian Rhapsody...poor Jasper the spotty dog. He will never be the same again. Maylin was sorely missed - we could have done with an 8th person to round off our very personalised version of Bohemian R. Not sure Freddy M would have approved, but we all enjoyed it. The evening was slightly marred by an unfortunate collision between a bunny wabbit and my bumper on the way home...turning Erica and I into squealing hysterical girlies, though it has to be admitted that we stopped crying long enough to sing Bright Eyes. Oh that Karaoke machine has a lot to answer for....